Bringing in a player, on loan, with ‘a pre existing injury’ and won’t be seen for a couple of months at least. I’d get irate about it, but just standard operations down there…

Mowbray over McCarthy, wow, there’s not a lot more to be said is there. I wouldn’t be wasting any more of my time and engaging in anymore back and forth if that’s his viewpoint on football managers.

Ah, I see, a topic is only ‘pointless’ when you don’t want to talk about it anymore. Fair enough.

But we didn’t sign them, so isn’t still talking about it also ‘pointless’?

Feel for you Tony, an example of a fan willing and able to support the club from afar, but having the piss taken. Of course the club were going to offer a piss poor service, this is a set up that in recent years has closed football’s first radio station and has now even stopped producing a match programme, a staple of a match day that even club’s at the level of Clitheroe can still get on sale. The first page of this thread is testament to how in denial some folk still are to the stripped down shell operation that we have to put up with, there was never going to be an ‘improved service’ this season, even from the rudimentary one provided by the EFL with ifollow.

Three centre halves, two full backs, two defensive midfielders… and it’s the strikers that should be stopping crosses coming in?

Groundsman with the old Umbro gear on there… shortages must be bad!

Will dovetail well with the murals outside the grou… oh

@only2garners @K-Hod Can JimEdd’s post be raised at the FF? This club really is in an utterly shambolic state, and it’s not bloody good enough.

Reopening in a couple of weeks I believe, so that’s another hole in the balance sheet!

Remember when Swag tried opening the ‘1875 Lounge’, had about 2 beers on and lasted about the same amount of games.

Says a lot about modern fandom that social media posts re delayed kits get far more of a united front of abuse aimed at Rovers than results, transfers, Brockhall, state of the club, owners, Waggott and so on…

2013 of all years to start following the Rovers! I can only salute you.

It nearly was a turning point, but not how the media liked to make out. It was that lot went on a storming run post Kung fu kick, whilst it was us that lost form at the business end…

Or you’d have a player modelling it in the LT, as a certain number 9 did in our new CIS kit… and then buggered off about a week later. 😭

I’d say a lot of fans read the odd thing in the LT about the Brockhall sale, but due to piss poor reporting and the refusal to even print Rev’s letter, I’d wager a majority, as they had nowhere near the deep dive into it that we had on here, would have had no issue with it.

Ok I’ll rephrase, yes of course some have walked away in despair, but the majority of Rovers fans aren’t interested in the ownership, Chief Exec. They just go to watch the team, and they won’t be back when the team is as average as this, never remotely threatening the top end of the table, just a club going through the motions - J*B’s second point is on the money. We on here and those that have walked away in despair know why we have such a mediocre team, however many fans aren’t interested in the reasons, just the reality and they won’t be parting with £30/40 to see it. We need to remember that most fans aren’t that invested, they don’t see it as their duty to attend, that their attendance could keep us out of FFP, they never marched, protested, turned up at Blakey’s, they won’t even be aware of the Brockhall situation. But floating or whatever, they’ve gone and there’s nothing currently that will bring them back, especially at the quite ridiculous prices, apart from actually doing something on the pitch, so as I said I’m not sure what the point of the thread is when there will be nothing forthcoming from the club either on or off the pitch to entice people back.

Well of course it would, but it just ain’t going to happen when the team treads water in the second division year after year, and it’s £30 (£400+ STs) for the privilege too. Most floating fans aren’t particularly arsed about Waggott, Venky’s etc, they just see a bang average side playing in a morgue, and that’s not a state of affairs that gets folk marching down Livesey Branch. It’s all pretty obvious so not quite sure why this needs a thread.

He can’t sign a pro contract until he’s 17 (in June). So you can imagine that a 16 year old playing for our U23s and England under 17s is going to be very difficult to tie down with some of the clubs in this region sniffing around…

90s goalkeepers tops were all pretty garish, I only ever have fond views of anything from that era.

Lambert was on paper a good appointment, done quickly with a back room staff too. It didn’t work out, but that’s football and I was feeling quite optimistic at that time that we were beginning to resemble a normal football club again. Who got that deal done I’ve no idea as we soon reverted back to mean.

I’ve no inside track, but what I would say is that this summer did have a feel of when they gave Bowyer feck all to spend and then had him out the door by November…

The murals at the corners of the stands were great, the one at the Darwen End side was just painted over with an ‘Away Ticket Sales’ sign… though there was already a sign just behind it saying the same thing! Still annoys me every time I walk past it.

Getting a balance on online forums is very difficult, this place obviously skews one way, the LT comments section completely the other. If you get a critical mass of say 3/4 of folk thinking one way, it will attract more folk with similar views and those opposed will either keep quiet as they fear a pile on or will just stop bothering - ergo said forums become ever more entrenched. It’s another example of ‘echo chambers’. The most well known example being the day after an election when a certain party wins, yet those on Twitter will cry ‘but I don’t know ANYBODY who votes for them!’ … well, that’s kind of the problem.

Ha, same, I was looked at aghast when I brought him up as being one of the club’s many issues at the Swansea game. I would say of all the folk that sit around me at Ewood and all the people I go away with, I’m the only one that even has a vaguely negative view of his suitability as manager.